Balun = Power Loss? - RadioBanter

May 14th 05, 12:44 AM

Jim Cammarano

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Balun = Power Loss?

Folks ---

Last night a ham mentioned that he was going to feed an antenna with 450 ohm
twin lead directly into his antenna tuner because the use of a balun would
result in less antenna gain 1db because of power loss. Comments?

73,

Jim kg6qhp

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